Hey everyone,
so I recently decided to upgrade my iMac's internal HDD to a 500 GB SSD after the original HDD stopped working a couple of days ago.
Everything went fine, I restored my system from the most recent time machine backup, upgraded to El Capitan and the iMac runs very smoothly now.
However, for some reason I can't quite figure out, the Photos app is trying to upload my entire Photos library AGAIN (20.000 photos). With my somewhat slow internet connection that would take days. Also there's no apparent reason for the iMac to upload them a second time.
All the photos are in iCloud already, I can see them on my Macbook Air and when I log in to iCloud via the web interface. And somehow iCloud seems to know that - although the iMac is clearly uploading files, these files apparently go nowhere: there no duplicates in the library from what I can tell so far, and I still have the same 28 GB of free iCloud space although the iMac allegedly has already uploaded 2 gigabytes worth of photos.
Any ideas what I could do? Obviously I could just stop the upload manually. However, I found out that the iMac won't download any new photos (for example photos that I take on my iPhone) as long as it's still uploading those older files. So that's not really an option.
so I recently decided to upgrade my iMac's internal HDD to a 500 GB SSD after the original HDD stopped working a couple of days ago.
Everything went fine, I restored my system from the most recent time machine backup, upgraded to El Capitan and the iMac runs very smoothly now.
However, for some reason I can't quite figure out, the Photos app is trying to upload my entire Photos library AGAIN (20.000 photos). With my somewhat slow internet connection that would take days. Also there's no apparent reason for the iMac to upload them a second time.
All the photos are in iCloud already, I can see them on my Macbook Air and when I log in to iCloud via the web interface. And somehow iCloud seems to know that - although the iMac is clearly uploading files, these files apparently go nowhere: there no duplicates in the library from what I can tell so far, and I still have the same 28 GB of free iCloud space although the iMac allegedly has already uploaded 2 gigabytes worth of photos.
Any ideas what I could do? Obviously I could just stop the upload manually. However, I found out that the iMac won't download any new photos (for example photos that I take on my iPhone) as long as it's still uploading those older files. So that's not really an option.